Poms stumped as Australia advance fairly with Gilchrist

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AND just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, Australian sportsmen start behaving agreeably. As Adam Gilchrist, possibly the world’s finest one-day batsman, walked nobly to the pavilion, having sportingly admitted to the faintest edge — unseen by the umpire — off the bowling of Aravinda de Silva, the Sri Lanka spinner, Englishmen everywhere must have held their collective heads like the tortured soul in Edvard Munch’s The Scream. Winning ugly was just about all we had over Australia. That, spiders the size of footballs and being able to light a fag without the whole place going up in